Just in case there is any confusion, "ill-defined" is in this particular
context is in no way pejorative. The crux of a General Intelligence for me
is that it is necessarily a machine that works with more or less ill-defined
goals to solve ill-structured problems. Bob's self-description is to a
greater or lesser extent true of how most of us conduct most of our
activities and lives. The test of a GI, artificial or natural, is how well
it *creates* goal definitions and structures for solving problems, and the
actual solutions ad hoc.
(I still think of course that current AGI should have a not-so-ill
structured definition of its problem-solving goals).
Bob: >>You on your side insist that you don't have to have such precisely
defined goals
- your intuitive (and by definition, ill-defined) sense of intelligence
will
do.
As a child I don't believe that I set out with the goal of "becoming a
software developer". Indeed, such jobs barely even existed at the
time. However, through play and experience I may have noticed that I
had certain skills, and later noticed that these might be useful in
particular kinds of situations. This doesn't seem to be a situation
in which there was a well defined goal tree in advance, which I was
simply moving incrementally towards - although many people might like
to give such a whiggish impression in biographies or CVs. Rather
there were various ideas and technologies developing at the time, some
of which were transmitted to me and were able to use me as a P2P host
for further propogation.
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